My Leadership Lesson From Worldcom
- Oct 23
- 1 min read
Weekdays at Bernie's: What I Learned at WorldCom
WorldCom and Enron aren't the same story.
Enron was a maze of fraudulent shell games, while WorldCom was a solid business destroyed by culture.
Why? A CEO who didn't want to hear bad news.
Compare that to Ford's Alan Mulally, who clapped when executives were honest about their problems. Same struggles. Opposite leadership. Opposite outcomes.
The lesson: Problems never age well. So build a culture that gets them out in the open early and often. (5 min—but worth the watch!)
